Biosafety Manual
Summary
Follow safety guidance, policies, and procedures to use and manipulate biological materials at Harvard, including:
- Roles and responsibilities.
- Committee on Microbiological Safety (COMS) oversight and microbiological safety.
- Biological safety, biohazards, biosecurity controls, risk assessments, and risk management.
- Biological lab facility design.
- Lab move-in.
- Biological safety training and personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Biosafety cabinets and work practices to reduce aerosols.
- Handling biological sharps.
- Shipping biological materials.
- Decontamination and biological waste management.
- Incident reporting.
- Occupational health and medical surveillance.
- Lab close-out.
Who is this for?
Labs and research.